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Why would the RIAA takedown apply in other jurisdictions, when it cites US law?
by garmaine 6y ago
Why would the RIAA takedown apply in other jurisdictions, when it cites US law?
- heavyset_go 6y agoThe US and some of its allies have signed treaties and agreements that protect IP internationally.
- ikeboy 6y agoNone of those matter if a US court has declared that there's no infringement. Also, many of those probably don't cover circumvention.
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- Mindwipe 6y agoLiterally everyone who is a member of WIPO covers circumvention, so that's 193 countries.
- ikeboy 6y agoGood point, thanks. I still think a US ruling would be very beneficial, even if it doesn't definitively settle the issue globally.
- bxk1 6y agoThe comment is wrong though. There is no need to settle the issue globally, it's a US-only issue. As being a WIPO member or signing a treaty doesn't create laws. Being a WIPO member doesn't do much of anything actually, it's all just talk, that's why there are so many members. Instead countries have sovereignty, pass and implement their own laws regarding copyright typically requiring elected politicians to propose them and vote on them, independently from WIPO and treaties. They also have their own judicial systems, most countries not even doing a common law style system where things can ever be "settled", it's more about court orders, rather than some clever demands written by lawyers. So, when it comes to copyright, most of the world is really not like the US. A random WIPO country is likely not just lacks anti-circumvention copyright laws, but also lacks a lot of other things in them.
- Mindwipe 6y ago> Why would the RIAA takedown apply in other jurisdictions, when it cites US law? The RIAA can probably afford to send a second letter citing British or German law.